May 19: Joyce’s aunt (Daisy) runs a high quality fruit shop in Kowloon City.
The store, Yuen Hing Fruit Shop, is located across from the municipal market, at G/F, 110B Nga Tsin Wai Road, Kowloon City.
Aunt Dasiy gives us each a cup of fresh-squeezed orange juice, then she offers a tray of yellow pitaya ("selenicereus megalanthus"), a Colombian fruit, which is very similar to dragon fruit (or red pitaya, "hylocereus undatus") - before arriving in Hong Kong, I’d never seen or tasted either pitaya.
The yellow pitaya’s are significantly more expensive than any of the red dragon fruit available across Hong Kong. The Colombian fruits sell for $78HK, which is about $10US - the most expensive single piece of fruit I have ever eaten.
Aunt Daisy also shares some of the ice cream from the freezer, and she gives me a vacuum-sealed, ready-to-eat ear of corn from Japan.
She sells everything here, and all imported from the premier producers. Apples covered with designs/characters made from shadows (they look carved), extra-stinky durians, peeled palmellos, jackfruit and all sorts of fruits to which I don’t know the names, even pumpkins and pineapples from China that were shipped to Japan, emptied and filled with ice cream before they’re shipped back.
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